Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula, is assessing work on the upgrade of Metrorail Southern Line infrastructure which was vandalised when the service was stopped because of the pandemic. This comes after the Western Cape was granted a certificate to run the new Electric Motor Unit (EMU). The EMU relies less
A senior Hamas delegation on Friday met with Hezbollah’s official in charge of Palestinian relations, Hassan Hoballah, and his assistant Atallah Hammoud in Beirut. In a statement, Hamas said that the delegation included Hamas’s Head of Arab and Islamic Relations Khalil Al-Hayya, Hamas’s representative in Lebanon Ahmed Abdel Hadi, member of the
Libya’s renegade General Khalifa Haftar has welcomed the east-based parliament’s decision to appoint Fathi Bashaga as the new prime minister. The Tobruk- based House of Representatives in eastern Libya said its decision yesterday followed the failure of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, the incumbent prime minister, to hold elections in December, something that was agreed
The Lebanese Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Bassam Mawlawi, has instructed the security services to prevent the holding of two activities organised by a Bahraini opposition group and investigate the organisers. In a statement, Mawlawi said he has instructed the General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces and the General
The ties between Turkey and China seem to be on the up and up, if the warm exchanges between their top diplomats are any indication. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been engaging in a friendly dialogue with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, encouraging China to invest in Turkey. Turkey’s economy
The country’s first digital Census is due to begin this week and will conclude at the end of February. The nationwide population count will be conducted through telephone, digital computer-assisted counting and physical door-to-door visits. Stats SA has appealed to all communities to register before the end of January for the online count
Six inmates escaped after an armed gang ambushed the police truck they were travelling in en route to court, Gauteng police said on Friday. Police spokesperson Brig Brenda Muridili said the truck was ambushed by three armed suspects driving a silver Audi on the corner of Barry Marais and Rondebult
The Department of Transport in the Western Cape says it fully supports a decision by the George Municipality to interdict members of the Disadvantaged Taxi Association for operating in the Garden Route town. The Cape High Court granted the municipality an interdict to stop the CODETA-affiliated association from operating at
The National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa) is calling for schools to return to full-time learning in 2022. The organisation says the damage caused during the pandemic by rotational and online schooling, particularly to learners in early development stages has been significant. The Department of Basic Education last week
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
